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[–] dellish@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He is also the inventor of all the ridges around the edge of coins, because at the time it made coins almost impossible to forge.

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They added ridges so that the circumference couldn't be shaved off and melted into more coins

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Back then, the point of the coins was to represent that they contained a certain weight of metal, without forcing people to weigh them out all the time.